Observation by Robert James Stuart: Close up Aristarchus plus plateau and ri...

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Robert James Stuart

Observer

Robert James Stuart

Observed

2017 Nov 30 - 20:03

Uploaded

2017 Dec 02 - 17:08

Objects

The Moon

Equipment

ZWO 1178 MC camera
25cm f6.3 newtonian

Location

Rhayader

Target name

Aristarchus

Title

Close up Aristarchus plus plateau and rilles

About this image

Seeing Antoniadi III but very windy so exposures had to be interrupted. generally managed 300 frames 25ms, stacked in AutoStakkert, refined wavelets in Registax, then finished in Photoshop, exposure, contrast highlights. Over exposed to bring out shadow areas and show full extent of plateau. In original file many rilles visible including the 3 Prinz rilles

Files associated with this observation

large aristarchus, lava field and domes.jpg (1.7 MB)

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